Question

The school band wishes to raise a minimum of $800 by selling tickets to their holiday concert. They make $3 from each student ticket and $5 from each adult ticket. Let x represent the number of student tickets, and let y represent the number of adult tickets. Which linear inequality can be used to find the combinations of adult and student tickets that they can sell to meet their goal? mc007-1.jpg mc007-2.jpg mc007-3.jpg mc007-4.jpg

Answer 1

5y+3x>800 is the equation

Answer 2

3x + 5y ≥ 800

Explanation:

Here, x represents the number of student tickets and y represents the number of adult tickets,

Also, the cost of each student ticket is $ 3 and the cost of each adult ticket is $ 5,

Thus, the total cost of the tickets = (3x+5y) dollars,

According to the question,

Total cost ≥ $ 800,

3x + 5y ≥ 800,

Which is the required linear inequality that can be used to find the combinations of adult and student tickets that they can sell to meet their goal.